Bay Area hair restoration surgeon,
Sara Wasserbauer, M.D., recently presented research on the
effectiveness of using an image-guided robotic system to remove and
implant hair grafts on the scalp at the 19th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery in
Anchorage, Alaska.
Dr. Wasserbauer recently completed a two-year study on the
Restoration Robotics™ ARTAS System, an interactive, computer
assisted technique utilizing image-guided robotics to enhance the
quality of hair follicle harvesting. Operated under the direction of
a physician, ARTAS has the potential to solve most of the technical
challenges inherent in the manual follicular unit extraction (FUE)
techniques.
During the two-year study, Dr. Wasserbauer collected data on the
effectiveness of the ARTAS technology by itself and compared to
manual hair transplantation techniques. Dr. Wasserbauer then went on
to examine the rate of hair growth in patients nine months after
having their ARTAS System hair transplant and found that the hair
grows back at the same rate as hair that is manually harvested.
However, healing time is reduced using the robotic system and the
minimally invasive surgery leaves only tiny scars – less than a
millimeter in diameter where each graft was taken.
The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) is the
world’s leading medical authority on hair loss and hair restoration.
More than 500 physicians and surgical assistants from around the
world learned about the latest technological and scientific advances
in treating hair loss at the 19th Annual Meeting held from September
14 – 18, 2011.
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